The Town With Fire Under Its Feet — Centralia Explained

There’s a town in Pennsylvania where the ground is still burning — more than sixty years after a fire started underground.

In 1962, a trash fire ignited an exposed coal seam beneath Centralia. The fire spread through old mine tunnels, turning the coal bed itself into fuel. Coal seam fires burn slowly, release toxic gases, and can continue for decades or even centuries if oxygen keeps reaching them. As the fire spread, the ground cracked, roads collapsed, and the town became unsafe to live in.

Most residents were eventually relocated, but the underground fire is still burning today. Centralia shows how one small surface mistake can turn an entire landscape into a long-term hazard.

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